Swift Centre’s forecasters provide their predictions for Thursday’s general election
I like that many (all?) of the Mausritter one pagers have a d6 table of hooks when using it for a one shot. It gives a little randomization to the start and can result in very different stories.
Luke seems to have campaigns in mind where characters bring context and background.
Biggest EU lawmaker group wants 2035 combustion car ban revised, draft shows
A draft of those priorities included the aim of: "revising the rules for CO2 reduction for new cars and vans to allow for the use of alternative zero-emission fuels beyond 2035".
Announcing the appointment of Marc Whitten as our new Chief Executive Officer. Learn more about our new leadership here.
> Marc was a founding engineer at Xbox and Xbox Live where he scaled three generations of technology to serve millions of gamers. At Amazon, he was general manager and vice president across a range of entertainment devices and services, including Fire TV, Kindle, and Amazon apps and entertainment services. He served as Chief Product Officer of Sonos and most recently as Chief Product and Technology Officer, Create at Unity, where he helped expand the use of AI and the company’s real-time 3D technology, which powers most real-time games, apps and experiences across multiple platforms.
You Don’t Need Hooks, You Have Been Lied To
I’ve seen a lot of critics and readers talk about the strength, quality, quantity and absence of hooks in adventure modules - often held up as an
Der Charme an OSR und regelärmeren Spielen
Regelwerke sind Werkzeugkästen für das gemeinsame Geschichtenerzählen. Die Art der Geschichte wird häufig durch Genre und Fokus festgelegt.
FeenCon 2024 Rückblicke
Die hier hab ich gefunden:
Hier ein Video auf ihrer persöhnlichen Website (3 Minuten).
Die Begründung klingt ja ganz ok. Ich kann nur nicht verstehen, warum das Gründe sind zur CDU zu wechseln?
Erstmals seit fast 20 Jahren wechselt eine Grünen-Bundestagsabgeordnete zur Unionsfraktion. Die Mannheimer Politikerin Melis Sekmen geht in die Opposition - offenbar aus Enttäuschung über die Wirtschaftspolitik der Grünen.
European BEV demand fell 11% in May, with 19% of registrations from China. MG outsold Tesla despite losing ground. JATO Dynamics reports a 2.5% decline in new car registrations compared to last year, highlighting opportunities for Chinese OEMs in Europe amid high BEV prices and upcoming tariffs.
Klassischer Korrelation vs Kausalität Fehler. Hab die Studie nur überflogen, aber da finde ich nur Korrelation. Der Artikel suggeriert Kausalität.
In a visit to Montenegro last summer, my wife and I encountered the wall of a castle that listed some of the rulers of the country, which only became independent in 2006. This is a pretty boring wa…
Die mythische Unterwelt, der (Mega-)Dungeon dürfte in den meisten OSR-Kampagnen einen zentralen Platz innehalten. Für diesen Artikel verwende ich den Begriff „Dungeon“ synonym für die b…
Review: Volume 2 – Monsters & by Luke Gearing
Published in 2022, Monsters & is an experimental monster manual that is both a companion to Gearing’s &&&&&&&& Treasure and a part of the collection comprising L…
Naja, Firmenanteile gehören zum Vermögen dazu und Sonderausschüttungen sind Einkommen.
Schwierig ist der Wert einer Firma wenn es keine AG ist. Wieviel ist der regionale Autohändler mit fünf Filialen wert? Wieviel der Immobilienbesitzer der zehn Wohnungen in München vermietet?
Should the EU follow China in adopting PHEVs? (Opinion)
> If Europe is serious about cutting emissions and also achieving the ban on new cars with combustion engines by 2035 then a switch from HEV to PHEV in the near term would make a lot of sense.
Rimac is shifting from electric supercars to robotaxis with MobilEye: Verne
The robotaxi uses technology from Mobileye.
Ein Unterseekabel von Norddeutschland nach Südschweden sollte die deutsche Energiewende retten. Doch das Projekt ist gescheitert. Unser Gastautor, ein schwedischer Fachjournalist, erklärt, weshalb.
Nissan is the latest victim of BYD’s “liberation battle” against gas-powered cars. After BYD’s aggressive price cuts this year, Nissan...
Chatkontrolle weitergedacht
Attached: 1 audio Chatkontrolle: Der SPD-Innenpolitiker und Polizist Sebastian Fiedler nochmal im Audio: "Ich bin eigentlich der Meinung, es dürften gar keine Handys im Umlauf sein, die es überhaupt ermöglichen, mit [strafbarem] Material umgehen zu können, es also zu öffnen, zu bearbeiten oder zu v...
Web access doesn’t work for months now and the admin has disappeared.
But humans still do better at turns and in the twilight
In der Praxis ist das Ziel solcher Überwachung doch dann Drogendealer und Umweltaktivisten.
Horizon Robotics Announces Mass Production Plan for SuperDrive™ AD Solution
> Horizon SuperDrive is on track to forge collaborations with several leading automotive brands and Tier-1 suppliers in the second quarter of 2024. By the fourth quarter of 2024, the company aims to finalize a mass-production-ready version, with the first SuperDrive-powered vehicle scheduled to roll off the production line by the third quarter of 2025.
The point of the author seems that autopilot is better than FSD for him:
Without FSD, you pay attention to the road and everything else is within your control. With FSD, you still need to pay attention but now there’s the additional cognitive load to monitor an unpredictable system over which you don’t have direct control. Forget about just being focused, you need to be hyper-focused, and you need to pay $99 per month or a one time fee of $12,000 for the privilege. With the limited functionality of autopilot, you hit the sweet spot: adaptive cruise control and lane centering work reliably, and you don’t need to worry about any other mischief.
Germany because a lot of family lives here.
AfD-Wähler haben offenbar eher Angst vor Kriminalität, Fremden, Islam, und Veränderung.
Ja, dieses Mal kann man noch eine Kleinpartei wählen. Nächstes Mal wären das dann verschenkte Stimmen. ☹️
Strategisch wäre Grüne aber nicht die Anderen, denke ich.
Große Frage ist ja, ob Ursula mit ECR oder mit Grüne/EFA wiedergewählt wird. Ihr Wahlkampf hat den Green Deal herunter priorisiert. Damit Klima auch nur genauso wichtig bleibt wie es bisher ist, braucht es also eine starke Grüne/EFA Fraktion.
Klimaliste und Letzte Generation sind nicht Teil der Fraktion soweit ich das sehe. Wäre also ein klareres Signal aber Realpolitisch mit weniger Auswirkung.
Alternative Mitglieder der Fraktion sind Piraten, ÖDP, und Volt.
Ich sehe da da gutgemeinte Ironie aber für Wahlwerbung ist das zu subtil.
Das dachte ich mir auch. Allerdings scheint der Originaltext noch nirgends verfügbar zu sein.
Another week of Tesla bashing, I guess. 😁
Who said anything about "five nines"? All we know from the article:
A couple of hundred claims a week would be a lot in normal times, he says. When the coronavirus hit, millions of claims suddenly were being filed and hitting the front end, which could not handle the massive increase in volume.
I'd say it wouldn't be that critical if was down half the time.
Not sure of these "millions of claims" were submitted within days, weeks, or months. So we have no clue about the volume. Maybe a single server would be fine. But who am I kidding, the cheap Javascript guys will probably build a distributed cloud monster anyways...
I don’t understand why they need COBOL programmers when it is a frontend load problem. Let some cheap Javascript guys write a new frontend with a cache.
I mostly agree with them and i framed it as prediction markets are rarely useful.
Hm, ich hab von der Polizei gehört, dass man nicht sofort löschen sollte. Man könnte das ja wiederum als Vernichtung von Beweismitteln oder Behinderung oder so auslegen.
Anwälte wiederum raten eher möglichst nicht mit der Polizei zu reden weil "alles was sie sagen kann gegen sie verwendet werden".
A single session should be doable with one or two pages. I like the style the Mausritter community uses a lot. For an example, see the Stumpsville adventure in the base game.
A larger good example is The Waking of Willowby Hall. Multiple pages describing every room in a big mansion.
- There should be a single paragraph intro which can be given to players in advance (so no spoilers!).
- An image is great to convey the mood and style.
- A map is usually useful but think broadly. The map of Stumpsville is more like a picture from the side. Still good enough to say "you are here in now".
- Offering multiple plot hooks is great to embed it into a larger campaign.
- Lots of bullet point lists and bold text parts to optimize orientation during play.
- To avoid going "off rails", just state a clear goal. If they go "off rails" then it is a short session.
- Something I miss in many adventures (especially if sandbox style modules) is a sense of urgency. Work some kind of timer into your adventure. Willowby Hall has an escalation mechanism built in which increases danger essentially because time passes. In other words, don't just "rescue the princess" but also "she gets sacrificed in three hours" and it should be possible to reach her too late.
What I don't need is a showdown scene. In general, I prefer "adventure sites" rather than "adventure stories".
Was ich noch schlimmer finde, soweit ich das von einer Info-Veranstaltung der Polizei verstanden habe: Der Besitz an sich ist ja schon strafbar, sprich diese "alarmierten Eltern", die das Bild nur empfangen haben, könnten in Folge den "vorbestraft" Stempel bekommen.